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AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models.

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An entrepreneur wound down his crypto startup and sold its digital archives to AI labs for around $25.

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“When Keelan Miskell began winding down his crypto startup this year, he didn’t think its data was worth much: the users were anonymous, the company just a few years old. But he’s since turned the firm’s digital archives into real money.”
MIT Technology Review AI, 13 Oct 2026, 09:00.

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